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by cashsterling 533 days ago
The real solution to this issue is municipal broadband.

If there is a municipal option for high speed internet, people who don't want deal with companies' monitoring and throttling shenanigans have a viable option from a community-focused provider. This provides price and service competition for the Tel-Co cartels who collude to fix prices and pull all kinds of other nonsense (like taking billions of dollars in federal funds and then deliver next to nothing... then lobby their way out of accountability).

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